Pope Francis is hanging around with anti-fracking activists!

It seems that hardly a day goes by without Pope Francis saying or doing something that spawns headlines and represents cause for concern among guardians of orthodoxy.

THIS STORY is just the latest example:

Pope Francis has already become a favorite of progressives with his fairly open-minded statements on homosexuality and birth control. But that adoration may go into overdrive, now that the Pope has adopted a new role as an environmental crusader, too. On Monday, the Pope was photographed with environmental activists holding T-shirts with anti-fracking slogans.

The photographs were taken after a meeting in the Vatican on Monday ...

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It seems that hardly a day goes by without Pope Francis saying or doing something that spawns headlines and represents cause for concern among guardians of orthodoxy.

THIS STORY is just the latest example:

Pope Francis has already become a favorite of progressives with his fairly open-minded statements on homosexuality and birth control. But that adoration may go into overdrive, now that the Pope has adopted a new role as an environmental crusader, too. On Monday, the Pope was photographed with environmental activists holding T-shirts with anti-fracking slogans.

The photographs were taken after a meeting in the Vatican on Monday ...